Detail View: JCB Map Collection: Aphrodisium.

Accession Number: 
07573
File Name: 
07573-020
Call number: 
E555 B679s
Map title: 
Aphrodisium.
Place of Publication: 
Antwerp
Publisher: 
Chez IE. Richart, avec privilege
Publication date: 
1555
Map size height: 
18.5 cm.
Map size width: 
14.5 cm.
Item description: 
map, woodcut, verso leaf 57 [sic]
Geographical description: 
Plan of Aphrodisium, possibly an imaginary city. Also includes topographical details. Includes encampments, military positions, walled city or fortress, soldiers, many cannons and ships.
Source author: 
Boileau de Bouillon, Gilles, 16th cent
Source title: 
La sphere des deux mondes, conposée in françois, par Darinel pasteur des Amadis. ; auec vn epithalame, que le mesme autheur ha faict, sur les nopces & mariage de ... Don Philippe Roy d'Angleterre. &c. ; commenté, glosé, & enrichy de plusieurs fables poeticques, par G.B.D.B. c.c. de C.N.L. Oubli
Source place: 
En Anvers: Chez IE. Richart, avec privilege, 1555
Cartobibliographic notes: 
Darinel, pasteur des Amadis, is the pseudonym of Gilles Boileau de Bouillon. This map was derived from the Bellère map found in Pedro de Cieza de León [La chronica de Peru. Part 1] Chronica del Peru, Antwerp, 1554.
Geographic Area: 
Europe?
Normalized date: 
1555
LC bibliographic number: 
b22200757